the problem is that people like you put too much thought into what the word racism means nobody said that they are equal obviously black people are oppressed and theres such a history of racism against them a white person calling a black person a nigger is not the same as a black person calling a white person a cracker but they are both racial slurs anybody can be racist to anybody people can be racist to their own race you have to stop tying all this baggage to the word a word is just used to describe something if you want to have a discussion about racism as a sociological construct go for it but stop trying to change what the simple definition of racism means